Authority
Who can create, delegate, and revoke authority?
Decision frameworks for identity and autonomous-action risk.
Use architecture, threat models, deployment boundaries, and evidence requirements to evaluate controls without invented benchmarks or customer claims.
- Authority
- Enforcement
- Failure
What you can evaluate
Questions security leaders should make testable.
Enforcement
Where is a decision checked before action executes?
Failure
Does every unavailable or ambiguous control fail closed?
Evidence
Can reviewers connect intent, decision, approval, and outcome?
Follow CISO perspectives from identity to evidence.
Each consequential action moves through the same six control points. See where 2AYE evaluates authority, requests human review, and preserves the outcome.
- 01IdentityWho or what is acting
- 02IntentSigned purpose and limits
- 03PolicyDeterministic evaluation
- 04ApprovalA named human when required
- 05ExecutionSingle-use grant, redeemed at the resource
- 06EvidenceReceipt joined to the audit chain
A practical adoption path
Start with one consequential workflow. Prove the boundary before expanding.
Assess
Document the environment, threat model, and integration boundary.
Design
Select protocols, signals, policies, and failure behavior.
Validate
Test vendor-specific APIs, tenant isolation, and abuse paths.
Release
Mark available only after deployed end-to-end verification.